Seminars
The Art of Speaking, Part I:
Fundamentals Skills for Research Professionals
This large group seminar will present information to help attendees organize, deliver and design professional presentations. Specific suggestions and guidelines for effective presentation will be provided using examples from your specific area of the scientific and technical community.
The Art of Speaking, Part II:
From Stress to Success
This seminar focuses four stressful situations: overcoming speaker apprehension, handling the question and answer (Q&A) section of a presentation, overcoming disasters, and presenting what you do in 45 seconds or less. The first section describe techniques to overcome presentation apprehension. The section discusses ways to organize and deliver your responses and ways to handle hostility. The section on handling disasters includes guidelines for a number of situations and the section on “what I do – in 45 seconds or less” will walk the participants through a formula for distilling their work into concise statements.
Click this link to download a PDF of the slides for BOTH of the above seminars!
Art of Networking:
How to Build and Maintain Your Network
In academia and industry a large part of professional success depends on the important ability to network effectively. Networking isn’t just about handing out business cards, asking for referrals and attending meetings. Networking is the development and maintenance of mutually valuable relationships. Lisa shares valuable concepts and practical techniques to help scientists and engineers learn the following:
• The first section covers conversation basics: how to join, start and end conversations
• The second section covers how to move your conversations to connections through giving and interest
• The third section covers how to manage your contacts and maintain regular, persistent contact
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Click here to download the list of links mentioned during the presentation
Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration:
A Communication Perspective
Today, as our work becomes more collaborative and team oriented, individual and organizational success depends on the ability to successfully manage and resolve conflict. While healthy conflict is the sign of a strong organization, unhealthy conflict is quite expensive and includes financial, productivity, continuity, and emotional costs. Lisa shares evidence-based models and practical techniques for developing a “resolutionary” culture.
• The first section reflects examples of conflict in your organization and the high cost of unhealthy conflict
• The second section provides an evidence-based systematic model for conflict resolution
• The third part provide practical, specific strategies to develop and inspire “resolutionary” communication
Click this link to download a PDF of the notes, slides, and FAQ
Art of Award Winning Poster Presentations
This seminar helps attendees organize, design and deliver professional poster presentations. For each section of the seminar, specific suggestions and guidelines are provided using examples from your specific area of the scientific or technical community.
• The section on organization describes how to plan and structure the poster
• The section on design describes guidelines for effective, winning designs. This section will be illustrated with sample posters drawn from your community.
• The section on delivering the poster will describe how to be approachable and engaging, while being clear and concise. A model for poster presentation delivery describes how to develop effective “poster” science sound bites.
• The final section covers current trends such as poster podcasting and blogging
Click this link to download the Scientific Poster Presentation PDF of the slides, links, and tip sheet
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